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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
TULY 26 
“ Rough on Rogues .” 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
JULY. 
Monday Look out for bogus investment 
q J companies. It seems necessary 
2o, to harp on this matter continu¬ 
ally. New concerns for the sole purpose of 
swindling the public are started every 
week. “ The Northwestern Land and Coal 
Company,” with offices in Boston and New 
York, is the last humbug to be be exposed. 
This company claimed to control 30,000 
acres of land in North Dakota, with many 
miles of river front and irrigation rights. 
A great and beautiful city was located in 
the midst of this land. Vast coal mines 
were only waiting for a chance to empty 
themselves into bins and yards. The com 
pany had even devised a patent process of 
pressing the fragments of coal into “ briq 
uettes,” which make better fuel than solid 
coal. In fact, there was no end to the 
special advantages claimed by the com¬ 
pany. All the public had to do was to walk 
up and invest money in stock, so that these 
great enterprises could be suitably pushed. 
A lot of respectable men were put forward 
as “ directors” on references. Lots of 
people invested their money in the stock. 
Now the thing is denounced as a complete 
fraud. In spite of all the cry about hard 
times there are plenty of farmers who are 
caught in all these wild schemes. They 
are tempted by the high rates of interest so 
plausibly promised. Of course it is a los¬ 
ing game; how can it be otherwise ? The 
more we see of this wild cat business the 
more we are inclined to print in larger type 
our line of advice to investors. 
INVEST YOUR MONEY AT HOME. 
Look about you for chances to make 
home investments. For example, there are 
hundreds of places where a man can buy a 
potato-digger or a corn-husker and make 
them pay 50 per cent, profit in one year. 
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Look out that you get a good 
look at a person’s 
Tuesday 
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before you fully make up your mind as to 
his character. The eyes, the nose, the fore¬ 
head all tell their share of the story, but 
the mouth is the place after all where we 
should look for definite information. The 
lips move—their muscles are developed and 
become pronounced. Thus it is that the 
mouth of the glutton, the sneerer, the 
cross, ugly man, or the indecisive, lazy fel¬ 
low all shov\ r the result of his peculiar 
lip work. A man is known by his mouth. 
Young ladies should never marry men who 
are not willing to shave beard or moustache 
and thus show what sort of work their 
mouths delight in. 
WPfl nPSfl RV kook out for “ matrimonial 
^ agencies.” Miss Georgiaua 
30. Cockroft of Providence has 
just been arrested for using the mails 
fraudulently. She, with a fellow named 
Coen of Binghamton, N. Y., has been con¬ 
ducting a matrimonial agency. They pro¬ 
posed to procure wives for men who are too 
bashful to do their own courting. These 
“ agencies” cannot succeed. They are hum¬ 
bugs of the most sinful type. If you want 
to get married drum your good qualities to¬ 
gether and discharge your bad ones and then 
muster up courage enough to put the result 
before the lady in the best shape you can. 
If these agencies fail to win success for you, 
be a philosopher and do not seek help from 
a fraud. 
Thursday 8mart young rascal went into 
• a store in this city and said he 
31. wanted $15 worth of lamp wicks 
of a peculiar shape and size. The store¬ 
keeper did not have them in stock, but 
promised to order them at once. The young 
man left his address and went away. An 
hour or so after in comes a young drummer 
doing business for the “ American Lamp 
Wick Company.” “ By the merest chance ” 
he happened to have some wicks that were 
“just exactly” what the first man wanted. 
The store-keeper bought the wicks and paid 
cash for them. When he came to hunt up 
his customer the address was found to be 
bogus. He had paid for the wicks but 
could not sell them. Of course the two 
frauds were working together. Substitute 
other articles for the wicks and you have a 
game that is very frequently played. “ Pre- 
8ervaline”is just now getting lots of free 
advertising. It is claimed that this sub¬ 
stance is nothing but borax. We don’t care 
to eat borax ourselves; at any rate we don’t 
propose to pay 50 cents for 10 cents’ worth of 
stuff that some fellow has nicely packed 
and labeled. In other words, we do not 
want “ Preservaline.” 
AUGUST. 
Friday Look out for bogus advertisements 
J of horses in the New York papers. 
■ These advertisements tell wonder¬ 
ful stories about the history or former 
owners of the animals offered for sale. It 
is very safe to let such fellows alone. They 
are in the business to beat you if they can. 
Here is a sample advertisement: 
4 GENTLEMAN HAVING MET WITH A SAD MIS- 
J. \ fortune will sell his very handsome Road and 
ramily Horse, seven years old. 15*4 hands high color 
bay ; price 82 5. I have several times been offered 
four times that amount for him ; is a prompt, natural 
roadster of ten milts per hour ; I will guarantee him 
absolutely sound and gentle, and to trot in 2:35 or 
no sale, he is safe for ladles to drive around depots 
or any place In the city, as he is not afraid of loco¬ 
motives or elevated ; an excellent saddle horse , bred 
in Kentucky; will give ten days’ trial; he must be 
seen to be appreciated, as he is in everyway as repre¬ 
sented and described ; fast, safe, sound and reliable. 
We went to see this remarkable animal. 
It would be worth to us just about $75. 
Had it been advertised for just what it is, 
probably not three people would have 
called to see it. But with this statement 
lots of people, who expected to get a $500 
horse for half price, came to the stable. Of 
course, the horse, after standing in the 
stable for days, on good feed, would start 
off in great style when hitched up. Prob¬ 
ably some unfortunate is now looking sadly 
at him, wishing he had the animal once 
more in his pocket book. 
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S&tlirdllV kook out for a publishing house 
J which seuds you a letter like 
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the following. It is after agents 
to sell a book on farming: 
“We want a man of some ability to fill 
this place; and if you think you are equal 
to it, we will contract with you to work 
where you are, at a salary of $3 per day 
and expenses not to exceed $7 per week, as 
set forth in our contract. We have found 
it better to employ men on salary in this 
way. We thus get good men and better 
results. Now, we would like to have you 
come in and see us, and arrange a contract; 
but in order that you may come prepared, 
we will here say that the position is one of 
trust and responsibility, and that we shall 
require you to place with us either a bond 
for $500, or a deposit of $50 in cash, as se¬ 
curity for the faithful performance of your 
contract. We will further say that we will 
make the matter of security effective, and 
that if you should enter into a contract 
with us, and then not fulfill it, you would 
forfeit the amount of your security, 
whether it be bond or deposit. Of course, 
a man of the right stamp will not object on 
this point, because if we are to fit you out, 
and risk money for your expenses and 
salary, we must have positive assurance 
that you will work as you agree, so that 
we may be sure of receiving something 
from the business after thus putting our 
money into it. Y r ou will notice that the 
bond is much larger than the deposit, but 
we have found it expensive to collect on a 
bond ; and a deposit of $50 is as acceptable 
to us as a bond for $500.” 
This may be all right, but the trouble is 
that not one man in a dozen can fully carry 
out the “ rules and regulations.” As an old 
book agent, the writer advises his friends 
to keep their $50 and pick up some other 
work. Such houses generally acquire a 
good commercial standing as they pay bills 
for goods and work, but their game is to 
make what they can out of inexperienced 
agents. Let them alone ! 
Poultry Yard. 
NEW AND OLD BREEDS. 
(Concluded.) 
The Sherwoods and La Fleches. 
The Sherwoods are a new breed not yet 
offered to the public. They are at present 
on trial at W. Atlee Burpee & Co.’s farm, 
Doylestowu, Pa., and if found satisfactory 
will be offered to the public next season. 
They originated about 30 years ago, in Vir¬ 
ginia, where they were discovered a few 
years ago by Mr. Burpee. Investigation 
showed them to be a cross between the 
Brahma and White Game. I saw them re¬ 
cently, and was favorably impressed by 
their business-like appearance. They are 
large, compactly-built birds, with pure 
white plumage, scantily feathered on the 
shanks, and with small single combs. The 
breast, in both sexes, is very broad and 
deep, and the back looks very meaty. 
They certainly combine the features of two 
magnificent breeds, but it will take a few 
years to establish a uniform type. This 
breed will bear watching, as it looks like 
one of more than ordinary merit. 
The La FISche is the finest fowl of 
France. It has been bred, like all French 
fowls, for meat and eggs and not for 
feathers and fancy points; yet it breeds re¬ 
markably true, and not only does it furnish 
a grand carcass, but is, like all French 
fowls, a layer of splendid white eggs. La 
FISche fowls have never been extensively 
bred in this country, and at present are 
rather scarce. They are supposed to be 
somewhat delicate, but this fault is, I be¬ 
lieve, due to their not being acclimated, as 
birds bred in this country are as hardy as 
those belonging to any other breed—at 
least in certain sections. With me they 
have been fair layers; but the eggs are 
magnificent in size and appearance. The 
little chicks are precocious and very hardy. 
They feather rapidly, Put not as unevenly 
as the Leghorns; besides, they increase in 
weight more rapidly than the latter. The 
first-prize pair of dressed pullets weighed 
20 pounds at the Paris show two years ago 
and they were pure bred La Fleche. The 
carcass is white, and presents a very invit¬ 
ing appearance at the stalls when well 
dressed. La Fleche fowls are solid black 
having white earlobes and a peculiar V- 
shaped comb. 
BREEDING LAYING STOCK. 
“The practical poultry keeper should 
select his best laying hens as breeders, as 
there is no question but that the laying 
qualities of the stock can be improved 
greatly in this way, and when fresh blood 
is introduced it should be on the female 
side, and only hens known to be excellent 
layers should be selected. In breeding, 
every third generation is often enough to 
infuse fresh blood into the flock.”—Florida 
Dispatch. 
We wish we could make, from personal 
experience, so positive a statement as the 
above. It is singular that so little is 
known about this matter. Almost any 
poultryman will say: “ Why, yes, of 
course, laying qualities can be sustained 
and improved by proper selection and 
breeding,” but nobody seems able to give 
any exact figures to prove it. The R. N.- 
Y. is trying a little experiment in this 
line, as we have before indicated. We 
have one hen, of no particular breed, that 
lays more eggs than any other two that we 
have. We have crossed her with cocks of 
five different breeds, and have hatched all 
of her eggs that we possibly could. Un¬ 
fortunately most of her chickens are 
roosters, but there are enough pullets to 
enable us to test the theory. We want to 
know if those pullets will show their 
mother's ability to lay a great many eggs, 
and whether there will be any difference 
in the laying powers of the pullets from 
the different cocks. We shall also try to 
see if the sons of this hen are of any value 
in producing superior laying stock. Sev¬ 
eral parties have convinced themselves 
tnat much can be done by proper selection 
of laying stock, but we need accurate aud 
long-continued experiments to determine 
these points. It does not seem to us likely 
that the advice contained in the above 
item, to introduce fresh blood only on the 
female side, is sound. There seems no good 
reason why, in this case, the brother should 
not be as valuable as the sister. With our 
present knowledge we would prefer one of 
our young roosters, that we know has a 
good laying mother, to a thoroughbred 
rooster that we know nothing about. 
NOTES. 
Lay in a stock of road dust and gravel 
for next winter’s use. 
Feed the growing chicks well, for every 
day that they are not doing their best there 
is a loss. 
IT doesn’t pay to market poor poultry. 
Frames don’t weigh much, but they furnish 
a tip-top place to stow away corn in the 
shape of fat. 
This hot weather is just the best kind 
of a time for breeding lice. For the best 
results give them a frequent diet of white¬ 
wash and kerosene oil, applied with a force 
pump or a brush. 
Grow a lot of cabbage for next winter’s 
supply of green food. Some of the second 
crop of clover put in a tight barrel—a silo 
in miniature—is also excellent. Next to 
these comes good, bright clover hay, cut 
fine and softened with steam or hot water 
when wanted for use. 
Who has tried rye, either whole or as 
meal, for poultry ? I have sometimes fed a 
little of it when short of other grain, and 
could not see any effect, good or bad, as 
compared with other grain. There is a 
general feeling among my friends and ac¬ 
quaintances that rye is not a good poultry 
food. F. H. c. 
A Hen’s Habit.— The most remarkable 
hen story of the present campaign is told 
by Louis Morrison, the actor. Mr. M. is 
spending his vacation on a farm near New 
York : “ He is fond of fresh eggs, he says, 
and a big Leghorn seemed to become aware 
of it, for every morning as regularly as 
clock work, she came to his room as soon as 
he got out of bed, and flying to the bed, 
proceeded at once to deposit an egg on the 
counterpane. After a joyous cackle, she 
would go her way and the egg would 
be cooked for Mr. M.’s breakfast. One day 
Mr. M. overslept himself and he was not 
yet up when the hen came into his room. 
Too kind to disturb his slumber, the hen 
went to a corner of the room, where was an 
open valise, and laid the egg in that, going 
away again without cackling until she 
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